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- This invention relates to file systems and more particularly to a technique for reducing disk write operations of a file server.
- a file server is a computer that provides file service relating to the organization of information on storage devices, such as disks.
- the file server or filer includes a storage operating system that implements a file system to logically organize the information as a hierarchical structure of directories and files on the disks.
- Each “on-disk” file may be implemented as a set of data structures, e.g., disk blocks, configured to store information.
- a directory may be implemented as a specially formatted file in which information about other files and directories are stored.
- a filer may be further configured to operate according to a client/server model of information delivery to thereby allow many clients to access files stored on a server, e.g., the filer.
- the client may comprise an application, such as a database application, executing on a computer that “connects” to the filer over a direct connection or computer network, such as a point-to-point link, shared local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), or virtual private network (VPN) implemented over a public network such as the Internet.
- Each client may request the services of the file system on the filer by issuing file system protocol messages (in the form of packets) to the filer over the network.
- a common type of file system is a “write in-place” file system, an example of which is the conventional Berkeley fast file system.
- file system it is meant generally a structuring of data and metadata on a storage device, such as disks, which permits reading/writing of data on those disks.
- file system it is meant generally a structuring of data and metadata on a storage device, such as disks, which permits reading/writing of data on those disks.
- An inode is a data structure used to store information, such as metadata, about a file, whereas the data blocks are structures used to store the actual data for the file.
- the information contained in an inode may include, e.g., ownership of the file, access permission for the file, size of the file, file type and references to locations on disk of the data blocks for the file.
- the references to the locations of the file data are provided by pointers in the inode, which may further reference indirect blocks that, in turn, reference the data blocks, depending upon the quantity of data in the file. Changes to the inodes and data blocks are made “in-place” in accordance with the write in-place file system. If an update to a file extends the quantity of data for the file, an additional data block is allocated and the appropriate inode is updated to reference that data block.
- a write-anywhere file system may initially assume an optimal layout such that the data is substantially contiguously arranged on disks. The optimal disk layout results in efficient access operations, particularly for sequential read operations, directed to the disks.
- a particular example of a write-anywhere file system that is configured to operate on a filer is the Write Anywhere File Layout (WAFLTM) file system available from Network Appliance, Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif.
- the WAFL file system is implemented within a microkernel as part of the overall protocol stack of the filer and associated disk storage.
- This microkernel is supplied as part of Network Appliance's Data ONTAPTM software, residing on the filer, that processes file-service requests from network-attached clients.
- the term “storage operating system” generally refers to the computer-executable code operable on a computer that manages data access and may, in the case of a filer, implement file system semantics, such as the Data ONTAPTM storage operating system, implemented as a microkernel, and available from Network Appliance, Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., which implements a Write Anywhere File Layout (WAFLTM) file system.
- the storage operating system can also be implemented as an application program operating over a general-purpose operating system, such as UNIX® or Windows NT®, or as a general-purpose operating system with configurable functionality, which is configured for storage applications as described herein.
- Disk storage is typically implemented as one or more storage “volumes” that comprise physical storage disks, defining an overall logical arrangement of storage space.
- volume typically comprises physical storage disks, defining an overall logical arrangement of storage space.
- filer implementations can serve a large number of discrete volumes (150 or more, for example). Each volume is associated with its own file system and, for purposes hereof, volume and file system shall generally be used synonymously.
- the disks within a volume are typically organized as one or more groups of Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks (RAID).
- RAID implementations enhance the reliability/integrity of data storage through the redundant writing of data “stripes” across a given number of physical disks in the RAID group, and the appropriate caching of parity information with respect to the striped data.
- a RAID 4 implementation is advantageously employed. This implementation specifically entails the striping of data across a group of disks, and separate parity caching within a selected disk of the RAID group.
- a volume typically comprises at least one data disk and one associated parity disk (or possibly data/parity partitions in a single disk) arranged according to a RAID 4 , or equivalent high-reliability, implementation.
- mirror In order to improve reliability and facilitate disaster recovery in the event of a failure of a filer, its associated disks or some portion of the storage infrastructure, it is common to “mirror” or replicate some or all of the underlying data and/or the file system that organizes the data.
- a mirror is established and stored at a remote site, making it more likely that recovery is possible in the event of a true disaster that may physically damage the main storage location or it's infrastructure (e.g. a flood, power outage, act of war, etc.).
- the mirror is updated at regular intervals, typically set by an administrator, in an effort to catch the most recent changes to the file system.
- One common form of update involves the use of a SnapshotTM process.
- SnapshotTM processes include a set of image or SnapshotTM processes (see “PCPIs” 730 in FIG. 7 below), which implement the imaging capabilities of the file system. Snapshotting is further described in TR 3002 File System Design for an NFS File Server Appliance by David Hitz et al., published by Network Appliance, Inc., and in U.S. Pat. No. 5,819,292 METHOD FOR MAINTAINING CONSISTENT STATES OF A FILE SYSTEM AND FOR CREATING USER-ACCESSIBLE READ-ONLY COPIES OF A FILE SYSTEM by David Hitz et al., which are hereby incorporated by reference.
- the term “Snapshot” is a trademark of Network Appliance, Inc.
- a persistent consistency point image is a point-in-time representation of the storage system, and more particularly, of the active file system, stored on a storage device (e.g., on disk) or in other persistent memory and having a name or other unique identifier that distinguishes it from other PCPIs taken at other points in time.
- a PCPI can also include other information (metadata) about the active file system at the particular point in time for which the image is taken. Note that the terms “PCPI” and “SnapshotTM” may be used interchangeably through out this patent without derogation of Network Appliance's trademark rights.
- a snapshot is a restorable version of a file system created at a predetermined point in time.
- PCPIs are generally created on some regular schedule.
- the PCPI is stored on-disk along with the active file system, and is called into the buffer cache of the filer memory as requested by the storage operating system.
- An exemplary file system data identifier buffer tree structure (using inodes in this example—but other forms of block and data identifiers can be employed) 100 is shown in FIG. 1 . Over the exemplary tree structure may reside a file system information block (not shown).
- the root inode 105 contains information describing the inode file associated with a given file system.
- root inode 105 contains a pointer to the inode file indirect block 110 .
- the inode file indirect block 110 contains a set of pointers to inode file and data blocks 115 .
- the inode file data block 115 includes pointers to file and data blocks to 120 A, 120 B and 120 C.
- Each of the file data blocks 120 (A-C) is capable of storing, in the illustrative embodiment, 4 kilobytes (KB) of data. Note that this structure 100 is simplified, and that additional layers of data identifiers can be provided in the buffer tree between the data blocks and the root inode as appropriate.
- a PCPI inode 205 When the file system generates a PCPI of a given file system, a PCPI inode 205 is generated as shown in FIG. 2 .
- the PCPI inode 205 is, in essence, a duplicate copy of the root inode 105 of the data structure (file system) 100 .
- the exemplary structure 200 includes the same inode file indirect block 110 , inode file data block(s) 115 and file data blocks 120 A-C as in FIG. 1 .
- the file system layer When a user modifies a file data block, the file system layer writes the new data block to disk and changes the active file system to point to the newly created block.
- FIG. 3 shows an exemplary data structure structure 300 after a file data block has been modified.
- file data block 120 C was modified to file data block 120 C′.
- file data block 120 C is modified file data block 120 C′
- the contents of the modified file data block are written to a new location on disk as a function for the exemplary file system.
- the inode file data block 315 pointing to the revised file data block 120 C must be modified to reflect the new location of the file data block 120 C.
- the inode file indirect block 310 must be rewritten to point to the newly revised inode file and data block.
- the PCPI inode 205 contains a point to the original inode file system indirect block 110 which in turn contains a link to the inode file data block 115 .
- This inode file data block 115 contains pointers to the original file data blocks 120 A, 120 B and 120 C.
- the newly written inode file data block 315 includes pointers to unmodified file data blocks 120 A and 120 B.
- the inode file data block 315 also contains a pointer to the modified file data block 120 C′ representing the new arrangement of the active file system.
- a new file system root inode 305 is established representing the new structure 300 .
- any Snapshotted blocks (e.g., 205 , 110 , and 120 C) protects these blocks from being recycled or overwritten until they are released from all PCPIs.
- the active file system root inode 305 points to new blocks 310 , 315 and 120 C′, the old blocks 205 , 110 , 115 and 120 C are retained until the PCPI is fully released.
- the file system layer can reconstruct or “restore” the file system inode structure as it existed at the time of the snapshot by accessing the PCPI inode.
- the file system layer can reconstruct the file system as it existed at the time of creation of the snapshot.
- a PCPI is an image (typically read-only) of a file system at a point in time, which is stored on the same primary storage device as is the active file system and is accessible by users of the active file system.
- active file system it is meant the file system to which current input/output operations are being directed.
- the primary storage device e.g., a set of disks, stores the active file system, while a secondary storage, e.g. a tape drive, may be utilized to store backups of the active file system.
- FIG. 4 shows volume-based mirroring/replication procedure where a source file system 400 is connected to a destination storage site 402 (consisting of a server and attached storage—not shown) via a network link 404 .
- the destination 402 receives periodic mirror/replica updates at some regular interval set by an administrator. These intervals are chosen based upon a variety of criteria including available bandwidth, importance of the data, frequency of changes and overall volume size.
- the source creates a pair of discrete time-separated PCPIs of the volume. These can be created as part of the commit process in which data is committed to non-volatile memory in the filer or by another mechanism.
- the “new” PCPI 410 is a recent PCPI of the volume's active file system.
- the “old” PCPI 412 is an older PCPI of the volume, which should match the image of the file system mirrored/replicated on the destination mirror. Note that the file server is free to continue work on new file service requests once the new PCPI 412 is made.
- the new PCPI acts as a checkpoint of activity up to that time rather than an absolute representation of the then-current volume state.
- a differencer 420 scans the blocks 422 in the old and new PCPIs.
- the differencer works in a block-by-block fashion, examining the list of blocks in each PCPI to compare which blocks have been allocated. In the case of a write-anywhere system, the block is not reused as long as a PCPI references it, thus a change in data is written to a new block. Where a change is identified (denoted by a presence or absence of an ‘X’ designating data), a decision process 400 , shown in FIG. 5 , in the differencer 420 decides whether to transmit the data to the destination 402 .
- the decision process 500 compares the old and new blocks as follows: (a) Where data is in neither an old nor new block (case 502 ) as in old/new block pair 430 , no data is available to transfer (b) Where data is in the old block, but not the new (case 504 ) as in old/new block pair 432 , such data has already been transferred, (and any new destination PCPI pointers will ignore it), so the new block state is not transmitted. (c) Where data is present in the both the old block and the new block (case 506 ) as in the old/new block pair 434 , no change has occurred and the block data has already been transferred in a previous PCPI.
- a changed data block is transferred over the network to become part of the changed volume mirror/replica set 440 at the destination as a changed block 442 .
- the changed blocks are written to new, unused locations in the storage array.
- a base file system information block that is the root pointer of the new PCPI, is then committed to the destination.
- the transmitted file system information block is committed, and updates the overall destination file system by pointing to the changed block structure in the destination, and replacing the previous file system information block.
- the changes are at this point committed as the latest incremental update of the destination volume mirror. This file system accurately represents the “new” mirror on the source. In time a new “new” mirror is created from further incremental changes.
- volume-based approach to incremental mirroring from a source to a remote storage destination is effective, but in some circumstances it may be desirable to replicate less than an entire volume structure.
- the volume-based approach typically forces an entire volume to be scanned for changes and those changes to be transmitted on a block-by-block basis. In other words, the scan focuses on blocks without regard to any underlying information about the files, inodes and data structures, which the blocks comprise.
- the destination is organized as a set of volumes so a direct volume-by-volume mapping is established between source and destination. Where a volume may contain a terabyte or more of information, the block-by-block approach to scanning and comparing changes may still involve significant processor overhead and associated processing time.
- qtrees As implemented on an exemplary storage system such as described herein, are subtrees in a is volume's file system.
- qtrees One key feature of qtrees is that, given a particular qtree, any file or directory in the system can be quickly tested for membership in that qtree, so they serve as a good way to organize the file system into discrete data sets.
- the use of qtrees as a source and destination for replicated data may be desirable.
- An approach to remote asynchronous mirroring of a qtree is described in U.S.
- mirroring approaches are asynchronous, they occur at a point in time that may occur after the actual making of the PCPI, and may occur intermittently. This alleviates undue taxing of network bandwidth, allowing the change information to be transferred to the remote destination as bandwidth is available.
- a series of checkpoints and other standard transmission reference points can be established in both the source and destination to ensure that, in the event of any loss of transmission of change data across the network, the mirror update procedure can be reconstructed from the last successful transmission.
- This invention overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art by providing a system and method for improving the efficiency of the transmission of updated blocks generated between two discrete point-in-time persistent consistency point images PCPIs of data identifiers in a storage operating system and repeatedly synchronizing a destination to a source without requiring the creation of new PCPIs once the source and destination have been initially synchronized.
- the file system records certain changes in a change log.
- the mirroring application selects a consistent point in the file system. The log is scanned during each update cycle (in which changes are transmitted to a destination mirror) by the storage operating system, and only changed blocks that are referenced by the file system as it exists (or existed) at the end of an update cycle are actually sent in the transmission.
- the log contains a series of identifiers for blocks that include an operation (allocate or delete) and the blocks identifier. This identifier can be the block's volume block number.
- the log also includes markers for PCPI creation and markers for consistency points (CPs). Deleted blocks are not updated in the active map of the storage operating system until it is certain that they have been written to the mirror. In this manner they are certain to be available for use by the mirroring application.
- FIG. 1 is schematic block diagram of an exemplary file system inode structure about to undergo a PCPI procedure according to the prior implementation
- FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of the exemplary file system inode structure of FIG. 1 including a PCPI inode, according to a prior implementation;
- FIG. 3 is a schematic block diagram of an exemplary file system inode structure of FIG. 1 after data block has been rewritten, according to a prior implementation;
- FIG. 4 is a schematic block diagram of an exemplary remote mirroring of a volume file system from a source file server to a destination file server over a network according to a prior implementation
- FIG. 5 is a decision table used by a block differencer of FIG. 4 for determining whether a change in a block is to be transmitted from the source file server to the destination file server according to a prior implementation;
- FIG. 6 is a schematic block diagram defining an exemplary network and file server environment including a source file server and a destination file server within which the principles of this invention are implemented;
- FIG. 7 is a schematic block diagram of an exemplary storage operating system for use with the file servers of FIG. 6 in accordance with an illustrative embodiment of this invention
- FIG. 8 is an exemplary log of changed blocks and related information for use in accordance with an illustrative embodiment of this invention.
- FIG. 9A is an exemplary log entry according to an embodiment of this invention.
- FIG. 9B is an exemplary log entry of a PCPI creation/deletion according to an embodiment of this invention.
- FIG. 10 is a registry entry relative to log-users in accordance with an embodiment of this invention.
- FIG. 11 is a basic flow diagram of a procedure for updating a mirror using the log in accordance with an embodiment of this invention.
- FIG. 12 is a flowchart detailing the steps of a procedure for determining whether a block is to be transmitted in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 13 is a flowchart detailing the steps of a procedure for determining when block deletions can be propagated into the active file system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 14 is a flowchart detailing the steps of a procedure for deleting blocks in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 6 is a schematic block diagram of a storage system environment 600 that includes a pair of interconnected computers (file servers in this example) including a source system 610 and a destination system 612 that may be advantageously used with the present invention.
- the source system 610 is a networked file server that manages storage one or more storage disks 662 on a source volume 614 .
- the source system 610 executes an operating system 700 .
- the operating system 700 implements a file system or other (for example, block-based) data structure on the disks 662 connected to the source system 610 .
- the destination system 612 manages one or more destination volumes 616 , comprising arrays of disks 660 .
- the source and destination are linked via a network 618 that can comprise a local or wide area network, such as the well-known Internet.
- An appropriate network adapter 630 residing each of the source and destination 610 , 612 facilitates communication over the network 618 .
- the term “source” can be broadly defined as a location from which the subject data of this invention travels and the term “destination” can be defined as the location to which the data travels.
- a source and destination could be computers/filers linked via a direct link, or via loopback (a “networking” arrangement internal to a single computer for transmitting a data stream between local source and local destination), in which case the source and the destination may comprise the same file server.
- both the source system 610 and destination system 612 are file servers typically comprising a processor 620 , a memory 625 , a network adapter 630 and a storage adapter 640 interconnected by a system bus 645 .
- the source and destination also include a storage operating system 700 ( FIG. 7 ) that implements a file system or other data management facility to logically organize the information as a hierarchical structure of data and data identifiers (files and directories, for example) on the disks.
- the storage operating systems ( 700 ) on the source and destination 610 , 612 are similar, implementing similar applications and utilities.
- the source and destination operating systems can be distinct in structure and function—but both implementing the SnapshotTM and mirroring functions as described herein.
- inventive technique described herein may apply to any type of special-purpose computer (e.g., file serving appliance) or general-purpose computer, including a standalone computer, embodied as a storage system.
- the source and destination systems 610 and 612 can be broadly, and alternatively, referred to as a storage system.
- teachings of this invention can be adapted to a variety of storage system architectures including, but not limited to, a network-attached storage environment, a storage area network and disk assembly directly-attached to a client/host computer.
- storage system should, therefore, be taken broadly to include such arrangements.
- each system memory 625 comprises storage locations that are addressable by the processor and adapters for storing software program code.
- the memory comprises a form of random access memory (RAM) that is generally is cleared by a power cycle or other reboot operation (i.e., it is “volatile” memory).
- the processor and adapters may, in turn, comprise processing elements and/or logic circuitry configured to execute the software code and manipulate the data structures.
- the storage operating system 700 portions of which are typically resident in memory and executed by the processing elements, functionally organizes the filer by, inter alia, invoking storage operations in support of a file service implemented by the filer. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that other processing and memory means, including various computer readable media, may be used for storing and executing program instructions pertaining to the inventive technique described herein.
- the network adapter 630 comprises the mechanical, electrical and signaling circuitry needed to connect the system 610 , 612 to the network 618 , which may comprise a point-to-point connection or a shared medium, such as a local area network.
- the source 610 may interact with the destination filer 612 in accordance with a client/server model of information delivery. That is, the client may request the services of the filer, and the filer may return the results of the services requested by the client, by exchanging packets 655 encapsulating, e.g., the TCP/IP protocol or another network protocol format over the network 618 .
- Each storage adapter 640 cooperates with the operating system 700 ( FIG. 7 ) executing on the filer to access information requested by the client.
- the information may be stored on the disks 662 that are attached, via the storage adapter 640 to the system 610 , 612 or other node of each storage system as defined herein.
- the storage adapter 640 includes input/output (I/O) interface circuitry that couples to the disks over an I/O interconnect arrangement, such as a conventional high-performance, Fibre Channel serial link topology.
- the information is retrieved by the storage adapter and processed by the processor 620 as part of the PCPI procedure, to be described below, prior to being forwarded over the system bus 645 to the network adapter 630 , where the information is formatted into a packet and transmitted to the destination server as also described in detail below.
- Either system 610 , 612 may also be interconnected with one or more clients 670 via the network adapter 630 .
- the clients transmit requests for file service to the system 612 respectively, and receive responses to the requests over a LAN or other network ( 618 ).
- Data is transferred between the client and the filer 612 using data packets 674 defined as an encapsulation of the Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol or another appropriate protocol, such as NFS.
- CIFS Common Internet File System
- each system can include a nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) 635 that provides fault-tolerant backup of data, enabling the integrity of filer transactions to survive a service interruption based upon a power failure, or other fault.
- NVRAM nonvolatile random access memory
- the size of the NVRAM depends in part upon its implementation and function in the file server. It is typically sized sufficiently to log a certain time-based chunk of transactions (for example, several seconds worth).
- the NVRAM is filled, in parallel with the buffer cache, after each client request is completed, but before the result of the request is returned to the requesting client.
- the NVRAM is flushed and refilled with new request information after each successive consistency point (CP) that occurs at a regular time interval and/or after the occurrence of a critical event. If a CP does not occur due to a failure or other stoppage, then the contents of the NVRAM log 680 may be replayed to reconstruct the most recent requests.
- CP consistency point
- the disks 660 and 662 are arranged into a plurality of volumes (for example, destination volumes 616 and source volumes 614 , respectively), in which each volume has a file system associated therewith.
- the volumes each include one or more disks 660 .
- the physical disks 660 are configured into RAID groups so that some disks store striped data and some disks store separate parity for the data, in accordance with a preferred RAID 4 configuration.
- RAID 5 having distributed parity across stripes
- a minimum of one parity disk and one data disk is employed.
- a typical implementation may include three data and one parity disk per RAID group, and a multiplicity of RAID groups per volume.
- the storage operating system 700 implements a write-anywhere file system or other data-handling function that logically organizes the information as a hierarchical structure of data identifiers and data (directories and files) on the disks.
- Each “on-disk” file may be implemented as a set of disk blocks configured to store information, such as data, whereas the directory may be implemented as a specially formatted file in which references to other files and directories are stored.
- the storage operating system is the NetApp® Data ONTAPTM operating system available from Network Appliance, Inc., of Sunnyvale, Calif.
- WAFLTM Write Anywhere File Layout
- the exemplary storage operating system 700 comprises a series of software layers, including a media access layer 705 of network drivers (e.g., an Ethernet driver).
- the operating system further includes network protocol layers, such as the Internet Protocol (IP) layer 710 and its supporting transport mechanisms, the Transport Control Protocol (TCP) layer 715 and the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) layer 720 .
- IP Internet Protocol
- TCP Transport Control Protocol
- UDP User Datagram Protocol
- a file system protocol layer provides multi-protocol data access and, to that end, includes support for the CIFS protocol 725 , the NFS protocol 730 and the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) protocol 735 .
- the storage operating system 700 includes a disk storage layer 740 that implements a disk storage protocol, such as a RAID protocol, and a disk driver layer 745 , that implements a disk control protocol such as the small computer system interface (SCSI).
- a disk storage protocol such as a RAID protocol
- a disk driver layer 745 that implements a disk control protocol such as the small computer system interface (SCSI).
- the layer 750 implements a file system having an on-disk format representation that is block-based using, e.g., 4-kilobyte (KB) data blocks and using inodes to describe the files.
- the file system In response to transaction requests, the file system generates operations to load (retrieve) the requested data from volumes if it is not resident “in-core”, i.e., in the filer server's memory 625 . If the information is not in memory, the file system layer 750 indexes into the inode file using the inode number to access an appropriate entry and retrieve a volume block number.
- the file system layer 750 then passes the volume block number to the disk storage (RAID) layer 740 , which maps that volume block number to a disk block number and sends the latter to an appropriate driver (for example, an encapsulation of SCSI implemented on a fibre channel disk interconnection) of the disk driver layer 745 .
- the disk driver accesses the disk block number from volumes and loads the requested data in memory 625 for processing by the file server.
- the filer (and storage operating system) returns a reply to the client 670 .
- the storage access data request path 770 through the storage operating system layers described above needed to perform data storage access for the client request received at the filer may alternatively be implemented in hardware or a combination of hardware and software. That is, in an alternate embodiment of the invention, the storage access request data path 670 may be implemented as logic circuitry embodied within a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). This type of hardware implementation increases the performance of the file service provided by the file server 610 , 612 in response to a file system request packet 674 issued by the client 670 .
- FPGA field programmable gate array
- ASIC application specific integrated circuit
- the replication/mirroring application 790 Overlying the file system layer 750 is the replication/mirroring application 790 .
- This application is responsible for the generation of updated PCPIs using the differencing function described above, and for the transmission and storage of replicated or mirrored data on the destination.
- the snapshot mirroring application 790 operates generally outside of the storage access request path 770 , as shown by the direct links 792 and 794 to the TCP/IP layers 715 , 710 and the file system PCPI mechanism ( 730 ).
- a changed block log function 798 that implements the is novel changed block logging procedure, described further below. This procedure is implemented typically on the source system 610 in this embodiment.
- FIG. 8 details a densely packed persistent log 800 that continuously tracks all block allocations (designated by an “A” and the block identifier ( )) 802 , 804 , 805 , 806 and deletions (designated by a D and the block identifier ( )) 808 , 810 , 812 , 815 .
- This log is established as a meta file in the operating system, that is typically invisible to users.
- the changes to the blocks are entered into the log, typically, in a time-ordered basis as they occur.
- all block allocations and deletions are recorded in the time order that they are visible to the rest of the system, which may not be the actual order that they occurred. Differences may occur due to, e.g., changes being made after a CP has begun being log-ordered as if the changes happened after everything in the CP.
- each set of entries other information, such as the creation of a given point-in-time PCPI 820 , 822 , the deletion of a given PCPI 835 , and the occurrence of the end of a consistency point CP( ) 830 , 832 , 834 are also logged as they occur. Note that each PCPI creation or deletion in this embodiment occurs at the edge of a CP. Likewise the entries for changed blocks are associated with respect to a particular CP and/or PCPI based upon whether they fall within that CP/PCPI boundary.
- PCPI(bar) and CP( 0 ) includes entries 802 , 804 , 805 , 806 , 808 and 810 , while CP( 1 ) also includes entry 812 , etc.
- a PCPI need not occur on each CP. Creating a PCPI on a given CP is desirable as this is a time in which the file system is “consistent.”
- Allocations and deletions are logged—allocations in order to determine which blocks have changed over time and deletions so that blocks are not reused until the contents of the blocks have been actually transmitted to the mirror and are certain to be no longer needed.
- PCPIs Snaphots
- PCPIs typically are not created to prevent reuse of deleted blocks due to the performance costs associated therewith. Hence, there is a risk that deleted blocks will be reused. In this instance the file system does not mark deleted blocks as being free as it would normally do. Instead, the deletions are logged in the change log.
- the deletion When the deletion has been successfully transmitted to all mirrors, then the deletion can be reflected in the active map (a metafile that indicates which blocks are allocated and which blocks are free in the file system) and the block made available for real-location/reuse.
- the active map a metafile that indicates which blocks are allocated and which blocks are free in the file system
- all allocated blocks are transmitted to the mirror as these blocks are referenced by the file system.
- the updates include a block allocation followed by a block deletion, that block can be omitted from the transmission unless the block is referenced by a PCPI that was created after the block allocation (and therefore contains a reference to the block in question) and the PCPI still exists (has not been deleted) as of the last CP in the update cycle.
- the block X has been, respectively, allocated (A(X)) and deleted (D(X)) all within a given CP and PCPI cycle (PCPI(bar)). In other words, block X has been freed prior to the next CP and PCPI. Thus, if a mirror update 840 is transmitted (on a short cycle) before the next CP end ( 830 ), the X block can be omitted as it has been allocated and deallocated within the applicable update cycle.
- the length of the mirror update cycle is determined by the mirroring application 790 .
- FIG. 9A details a typical log entry 900 A.
- This log entry consists of a log entry number 901 and an operation field (allocate block or delete block) 902 .
- the log entry number is a unique number identifying a particular log entry.
- Log entry numbers are illustratively assigned in a continually increasing order to log entries as the entries are appended to the log.
- the blocks volume block number 904 is also provided. This identifies the particular block.
- the entry can include a qtree identifier (or other sub-volume organization ID) 906 . If the block is part of a qtree as described above, this identifier allows it to be associated with that qtree so that only a selected qtree's information is transmitted to the destination mirror.
- an optional field for other information 908 can be provided.
- This information can include so called “swizzling” information related to relocation of the block where a virtual volume composed of a plurality of volume structures or other containers is employed.
- Entries for CPs and PCPIs can be structured in any manner that is appropriate to identification by the operating system and block change function 798 .
- FIG. 9B is a schematic block diagram of an exemplary log entry 900 B for PCPI deletions or creations.
- the log entry 900 B includes a creation/deletion field 910 and a PCPI identifier field 912 .
- the creation/deletion field 910 identifies whether this entry 900 B is logging the creation or deletion of a PCPI.
- the PCPI identifier field 912 contains the PCPI ID of the PCPI being created or destroyed.
- deletion is recorded in the log to enable the destination to remain in sync with the source.
- deleting PCPI(bar) causes an entry identifying such deletion to be entered into the log.
- each log user creates a registry entry 1005 .
- This entry 1005 contains the log entry number of the last record in the log that was processed in the previous update cycle for the mirror. The registry entry allows the user to jump quickly to the start of the log that relates to that user.
- the log can be deleted from a point in time earlier than the earliest registry entry once all recorded block deletions up to that point in the log have been propagated to the active map as this portion of the log is not relevant to any existing user or the active file system.
- FIG. 11 details a basic procedure 1100 for improving efficiency as described generally above.
- a new PCPI is created on a CP boundary and the log entry number of the CP record is registered (step 1105 ). From this point onwards, if the file system is not updating the change log, it starts to do so.
- the PCPI is then transmitted to the destination (step 1110 ).
- Techniques that can be used for this purpose include the volume-based remote PCPI mirroring techniques described in the above-reference U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/127,497, entitled FILE SYSTEM IMAGE TRANSFER by Steven Kleiman, et al. and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/426,409, entitled FILE SYSTEM IMAGE TRANSFER BETWEEN DISSIMILAR FILE SYSTEMS by Steven Kleiman, et al.
- the log Upon occurrence of a mirror update to a point in time later than that reflected by the current mirror state, the log is scanned starting from the first entry after the registered log entry and up to and including the log entry that the mirror will be updated to reflect (step 1115 ).
- the end of the update cycle is specified by the mirroring application and can be a CP boundary, a PCPI, or an arbitrary point such as the end of the log. All newly allocated blocks that are referenced by the file system and existing PCPIs as of the end of the scanned region of the log are transmitted to the mirror (step 1120 ). After successful transmission of the changed blocks, the registry entry is then updated so that the log entry number of the last log record scanned and updated replaces the existing log entry number (step 1125 ). Once all registered mirror updates have shipped a set of log records, all block deletions in those log records can be propagated to the active map and the shipped log records can then be deleted. The process repeats itself on the next mirror update cycle starting at step 1115 .
- the procedure 1200 detailed in FIG. 12 is applied to each block allocation record in the scanned region of the log.
- the procedure begins in step 1205 and then the entries in the log after the block allocation record up to and including the last record in the scanned region of the log are examined to determine if an entry exists that records the deletion of the block (step 1210 ). If no record exists, then the block should be transmitted (step 1280 ). If a record exists, then the log is examined to identify the correct “end record” (steps 1220 - 1240 ), i.e., the record marking the end of the log region that should be examined in the remaining steps.
- the log is then examined to see if a PCPI create record exists between the block allocation record and the end record (step 1250 ).
- the block should be transmitted. If so, then the log records between the PCPI create and the end record are examined to see if the deletion of that PCPI was recorded in that portion of the log (step 1260 ). If no record exists, then the block should be transmitted (step 1280 ). Otherwise, the block can be omitted from transmission (step 1270 ).
- FIG. 13 details the procedure used to determine when blocks deletions can be propagated to the active file system.
- the procedure begins in step 1305 and then all active registry entries are scanned to find the entry that references the earliest record in the log (step 1310 ). All block deletions recorded in the change log are then marked in the active file system as free blocks (step 1320 ). All entries from the beginning of the log up to but not including the log entry identified in step 1310 are then deleted (step 1330 ) before the procedure completes in step 1340 .
- FIG. 14 details the changes required in the file system layer (step 750 ) when deleting blocks.
- the block is marked as free (and therefore available for reuse) in the file system active map—a metafile that tracks every block in the file system and indicates whether the block is allocated or free.
- the deletion is recorded in the change log and the log flushing procedure detailed in FIG. 13 will initiate the normal block free procedures as detailed in FIG. 13 .
- the procedure 1400 described by FIG. 14 begins in step 1405 and then the file system layer determines if the block is being marked free by the log flushing mechanism described in FIG. 13 (step 1410 ). If so, then the standard (pre-existing) block free mechanism is used to process the block deletion (step 1440 ).
- step 1420 the system checks if the asynchronous replication method is in use (step 1420 ). If so, then the block deletion (free) is recorded in the change log (step 1430 ). If not, then the pre-existing block free mechanism is used ( 1440 ) before the procedure completes in step 1452 .
- the logging function adheres to the following exemplary rules where the mirror is to be updated to CP(N):
- blocks for all CPs can be transmitted in the log up to and including CP(N) as long as the deletions are propagated to the active map (per item 3), and as long as no log entries are removed until it is certain that the mirror has been safely updated to CP(N).
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